The Big Green heavyweight men and women will travel to Seattle for the Windermere Cup in...
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SEATTLE - The
teams are set for this year's running of the 27th anniversary of the Windermere
Cup, the annual spring rowing event on the Montlake Cut that signifies Opening
Day for boaters in Seattle, and this year the Big Green and fellow Ivy League
foe, Cornell will compete against the Washington Huskies. Races will begin at
10 am on May 4th.

The event is held in conjunction with the Seattle Yacht Club
and is sponsored by Seattle-based Windermere Real Estate, the largest regional
real-estate company on the West Coast. Last year tens of thousands of fans
lined the Cut and packed the Montlake. The free event has become one of the
largest sporting events in the area, connecting the Seattle community to the
sport.

"The Windermere Cup on Opening Day is a rite of passage
for spring in Seattle," said OB Jacobi, president of Windermere Real
Estate. "We look forward to it every year and are so proud to have this
27-year-long partnership with the University of Washington and Seattle Yacht
Club."

"We're
thrilled and grateful to be taking part," said Dartmouth men's heavy weight
coach Topher Bordeau. "The Windermere Cup is a special part of our sport,
something that every rower hopes to be part of at least once in their career.
We're really looking forward to the chance to compete against Washington and
Cornell in such a spectacular setting, and we're grateful to Windermere and the
Washington staff for giving us the opportunity."

The Windermere races began with the World Champion Soviet
Union crews in 1987 as part of the community's effort to highlight the unique
racing venue the Montlake Cut offers rowing.

"The Windermere
Cup is a special event and we're thrilled to have been invited to Seattle to
race in it," said women's coach Wendy Levash. "This will be my first
time experiencing the event, but from what I hear, there's really nothing like
it. We're looking forward to the unique race environment as much as the
competition. Washington and Cornell are both strong, deep, teams who
consistently boat fast crews. We're excited to race against the nations
best."

Traditionally the event has featured one domestic crew and
one international crew; however, this year Windermere has attracted two of the
very best domestic crew programs in Dartmouth and Cornell. The two schools were
scheduled for a dual race on Windermere weekend, but now both will be making
their way to Seattle to compete against the Huskies.

"We want to encourage the very best teams to come race in
the Pacific Northwest and Windermere's sponsorship has allowed us to do that,"
said Washington men's head coach Michael Callahan. "We're really excited to have two
storied programs coming to race us."

The 2013 Windermere edition continues the tradition of
attracting premier rowing teams to Seattle for this special event. The Ivy
League has a long and storied crew history, with the first races dating back to
1852. Cornell was one of the three Ivy League Schools that founded the
Intercollegiate Rowing Association, the oldest collegiate athletic organizing
body in the U.S.

"Over the years it's always been the goal of the Windermere
Company and the University of Washington to get the best level of competition
here for the Windermere Cup," said rowing director and women's coach Bob Ernst.
"It's been our quest the last few years to get good Ivy League competition to
come out, so to have two of their best come on the same year is really going to
make this event special."

Another twist in format has the men and women competing
against the same universities. Generally, the men and women face crews from
different schools.

The Dartmouth men's heavyweight crew, coached by Topher
Bordeau, is coming off a 2012 season in which they reached the IRA National
Championship for the 14th consecutive season after earning an at-large bid at
the Eastern Sprints.

The Big Green women, who advanced to the NCAA Championships
in 2011, are coach by Wendy Levash. The women are coming off a season in which
they claimed the Class of 1985 with wins over Yale and Boston University and
had an excellent showing at the Ivy League Championship.

"Both the men's and women's programs at Dartmouth and
Cornell have been competitive on the national level," said Ernst. "It's first
rate competition, so it's a big honor to have them come."

The spring rowing event is not just for collegiate programs.
Dozens of local, national and international junior and masters crews will
compete in races prior to the main event.

About
Windermere Real Estate and Windermere Cup
Windermere Real Estate is ranked the largest regional
real estate company in the Western U.S. with over 300 offices and 7,000 agents
serving communities in Alaska, Arizona, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana,
Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and Mexico.

Windermere's heritage of supporting collegiate crew racing began in
1987, when the company sponsored the first annual Windermere Cup regatta in
Seattle. More than 800 athletes a year from around the world come to Seattle to
participate in the Windermere Cup